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Lord Krishna ascended to His Divine abode at the end of dwapara yuga and immediately kali yuga started in 3102 BC. Krishna lived for over 125 years. He descended on the earth planet in 3228 BC. The Pandavas, after winning the Mahabharata war, ruled for 36 years and 8 months. Accordingly, the date of Mahabharata war comes to 3139 BC.

The dynasty of Surya Vansha of Kaushala (Ayodhya) ends with Sumitra (Bhag. 9/12/16); the dynasty of Chandra Vansha of Hastinapur ends with Chemak (Bhag. 9/22/44, 45); and the dynasties of the kingdom of Magadha flourished up to the Gupta dynasty (80’s BC).

History of Hastinapur

The kingdom of Hastinapur, after Chemak, was constantly ruled by the people who took over the throne. An ancient book describing the date-wise chronology of all the kings of Hastinapur (Indraprastha or Delhi) from Yudhishthir up to Vikramaditya and was found by the proprietors of the fortnightly magazine of Nathdwara (Rajasthan) called “Harishchandra Chandrika and Mohan Chandrika” in about 1872 AD. Luckily this book was saved from going into the hands of the British, otherwise it would have been instantly destroyed. The proprietor of the magazine printed the entire description in two of its issues (called kiran) 19 and 20 of 1882.

The description is detailed to year-month-days of each and every king who ruled. By adding the total number of years of the four dynasties from Yudhishthir to Vikramaditya, it comes to 3,178 years which is 3141 Kali era or 39 AD, which represents the date when Vikramaditya left this earth planet.

According to the Bhavishya Purana and Rajtarangini, Vikramaditya lived between 102 BC and 15 AD; and according to the above details his period ends by 39 AD. There is only a difference of 24 years in the date-wise record of 70 kings who ruled Hastinapur for 3,085 years. A discrepancy of 24 years in 3,000 years of record could be a copying or printing mistake, and is thus negligible when we are dealing with a longer span of years. In this way the predicted period of the dynasties of Magadha and the historic records of the dynasties of Hastinapur correspond with each other and justify their correctness, and vice versa.

This is only a section of the magazine. It gives full date-wise detail of each and every king who ruled Hastinapur from Yudhishthir up to Vikramaditya. This is one of the rarest records that survived through this magazine.

The beginning of kaliyug, 3102 BC

We have taken the beginning of kali yuga as the fixed point to determine the chronological dates of the events, kings, Divine dignitaries and the important personalities of our history. It is a common understanding that kali yuga started about 5,000 years ago (in round figures) and we never had any problems in the past in accepting this fact. But only after the arrival of the English people in India, all sorts of baseless criticisms started regarding our history and religion that were promoted and fostered by them. We had hundreds of such evidences regarding the date of Mahabharata war and the beginning of kali yuga in our history books that were destroyed by the British, still we have more than enough material to fully establish this fact.
(1) Astrological.

(a) We still follow the ancient astrological tradition. There is a most prestigious, 48 page detailed date-wise journal (panchang) with all the astrological facts and figures called “Vishva Panchangam,” established in 1925 and published by Kashi Hindu Vishvavidyalaya (Benares Hindu University), Varanasi. It gives all the three eras: Kali era, Vikram era and (Shalivahan) Shaka era.

It is as thus:

It says on page 3 that 5,100 years have already elapsed before 2056 Vikram year which is 1999 AD. It means that the existing Kali era is 5101 in 1999 AD, which comes to (5101 – 1999) 3102 BC.

(b) Another panchang of India called “Shree Saraswati Panchangam” published from Navalgarh, Rajasthan, also gives all the calculations and says that 5,100 years of kaliyuga had already elapsed before 1999.

It means that 5,100 years of kaliyuga had already elapsed before 1999 and 426,900 years of kali yuga are still left. Kali yuga is of 432,000 years (so, kali yuga started in 3102 BC).

Thus, the best team of the scholars of astrology all over India give the same figures of 3102 BC and publish it in the panchang (journal) every year.

These astrological journals are run by a group of the most learned astrologers of India, and thus it is mindlessness if any astrologer or scholar unnecessarily tries to argue about their accuracy.

(2) Others.

Alberuni. “Alberuni’s India,” first Indian print 1964 (S. Chand & Co., New Delhi) Volume I. In the second part of this book on page 4 Alberuni writes, “…the time which has elapsed since the beginning of kali yuga before our gauge-year, 4132 years, and between the wars of Bharat and our gauge-year there have elapsed 3479 years.” In the Annotations (p. 358) of the same book Alberuni tells about his gauge-year, which is: “A.D. 1031, 25th February, a Thursday.”

There is a difference of 968 years between 1031 AD and 1999 AD. Thus, adding 968 years to 4,132 years comes to 5,100 years, the period that has already elapsed since the beginning of kali yuga and up till today (1999), and this is exactly what is mentioned in the astrological journals of India.

Alberuni also mentions about Vikram era (57 BC) and also the Shalivahan Shaka era which starts 135 years after the Vikram era.

Aryabhatt. The greatest astronomer and mathematician, Aryabhatt, was born in 476 AD. His work in astronomy is an asset to the scholars. He gave an accurate figure for pi as 3.1416. He finished his book “Aryabhattiya” in 499 AD in which he gives the exact year of the beginning of kali yuga. He writes,

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“When the three yugas (satya yuga, treta yuga and dwapara yuga) have elapsed and 60 x 60 (3,600) years of kali yuga have already passed, I am now 23 years old.” It means that in the 3,601st year of Kali era he was 23 years old. Aryabhatt was born in 476 AD. Thus, the beginning of kaliyuga comes to 3,601 – (476 + 23) = 3102 BC.

There is also the dynastic chronology of Nepal that goes up to the Mahabharata war.

Kali yuga started in 3102 BC., Yudhishthir reigned Hastinapur for 36 years and 8 months, the Mahabharata war happened in 3139 BC. When Bhagwan Krishna left the earth planet and ascended to His Divine abode, immediately kali yuga started and a catastrophic rain, storm and sea deluge, that lasted for seven days, totally drowned and destroyed Dwaraka town. This catastrophe was also recorded in Babylonia’s ancient town Ur (which was mythologized in the West as Noah’s flood) and the ancient Mayan records. The dates of both are the same.

The unbroken chronology of the exact dates of all the Hindu kings of the 4 dynasties that ruled Hastinapur (up to Vikramaditya) since the reign of Yudhishthir is the most potent evidence and it could be easily understood by anyone, wise or dull, so as to believe that Mahabharata war had happened about 5,000 years ago in 3139 BC.

30 Comments

Kaliyuga begin is NOT important now.
Living trends tend to go much haywire
Tell me WHEN it ends ! All can be at
peace ! Pray God for help soon !!!

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Adv BMK Aryan
on June 11, 2015 at 5:51 am

Great Article. Thanks

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goukrun
on June 11, 2015 at 5:51 am

please can u tell us about da golden age in kaliyug. supposed to start 20/12/2012

but there is more crime n negative vibrations on earth. please give proof from scriptures

n give your usual clear understanding. thanks

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Robb Thurston
on June 11, 2015 at 5:52 am

Namaste Ji! Help is moksha. That comes from surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. Please attempt to practice vairagya, or detachment, honorable Ji, as well as bhakti, devotion, that will bring the moksha you seek> Here is proof, and I practice so I know–it works!

Abandon everything and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.

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SUDHAKAR
on June 11, 2015 at 5:52 am

WAIT DEAR FRIEND THE TIME IS VERY NEAR TO YOU.IN FEW MONTHS THIS EARTH IS GOING TO STRUGGULE WITH PANCHA BHUTAS…THEN SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN FUTURE..DON’T WORRY BE BRAVE OK…SEE YOU

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sudhakr
on June 11, 2015 at 5:53 am

THE KALIYUGA GOLDEN PERIOD WILL BE STARTS FROM JUST WITH IN 3 YEARS LATER .PLEASE WAIT UP TO 2017 TO REACH OUR GOLDEN PERIOD OF EARTH .OK.

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v siva rama sarma
on June 11, 2015 at 5:53 am

sir,
starting of kiliyug is OK. what about the period of kaliyug going forward to be according to our puranas.
siva rama sarma

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Vijayalakshmi
on June 11, 2015 at 5:53 am

The details are quiet informative. Can you also throw us some light on how to practice dharma in this present world. It looks as if future will be taken by robo’s.

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SURESHBABU RAJAGOPALAN
on June 11, 2015 at 5:54 am

Mind boggling! Great Article! Numbers are such a treat to read and also get a sense of what we have in the scriptures are but true happenings of the past makes it so great that Krishna, Rama, Pandavas etc are all real and not imaginary!

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Rajesh Dhamu
on June 11, 2015 at 5:55 am

Kalyug has already elapsed 5522 years.

Aadi Shankracharya was born In 508 BC when kalyug was already epalsed 3000 years

Great Article. when we are facing so much trouble at the starting 5000 yrs of kalyug, what will be the condition afterwards ………..

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Lakshmi Gopal
on June 11, 2015 at 5:56 am

Noah’s flood was the times of the Matsya avatar in Hindu religion, not the end of the Krishna avatar.

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Dharmaboopathy
on June 11, 2015 at 5:56 am

Good information.

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Manoj Thakur
on June 11, 2015 at 5:57 am

The Nature of the World Drama Cycle
The cycle of five epochs, comprising Golden-Age, Silver Age, Copper-Age and Iron Age and the confluence Age repeats exactly everytime after it has turned full wheel. During every cycle, the souls who are the actors on this world-drama stage will be the same. Each soul will act the same part in every cycle since, in the soul itself is indelibly ingrained the part it has played life after life in the previous cycle or that it has to repeat cycle after cycle. Just as in a tape record or a gramophone record, a whole song or drama is recorded and it repeats every time the record is played, even so, a soul’s role in this world drama is recorded in the soul itself which is only self-luminous, conscient point. The soul replays the part once every 5000 years because each one of the four eras of the world-drama being equal to 1250 years, the duration of one World Cycle is 5000 years.

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Shivesh
on June 11, 2015 at 5:57 am

Sir, i have read in the book names “Kaivalya Darshanam (The holy Science)” written by Shri Yukteshwar Giri ji, the great God Realised guru of Shri Paramhansa yoganand, that the time of kaliyuga is 1200 years and it has also passed in 1699 AD. The present age is Dwapara Age, the age of Electric Energies. So, please kindly, clarify on the issue. The book reads like this:
“The position of the world in Dwapara Sandi Era at present (AD 1894), is not correctly shown in the Hindu Almanacs. The astronomers and astrologers who calculate the almanacs have been guided by wrong annotations of certain Sanskrit scholars (such as Kulluka Bhatta) of the dark age of kali yuga and now maintain that the length of Kali Yuga is 432,000 years, of which 4994 have (in 1894 AD) passed away, leaving 427,006 years still remaining. A dark prospect, and fortunately one not true.” (p18, 2nd paragraph, The Holy Science, written by Shri Yukteshwar Giri Ji).

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bhuvaneswar
on June 11, 2015 at 5:58 am

Could you please tell me about the great discrepancy that occurs by looking at the Dwaraka ruins age ( by underground expedition near Gujarat) put about 6 millennia B. C to 12 millennia B.C. and the historical accounts of 5000 years from now.

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Shambhu Shah
on June 11, 2015 at 5:58 am

The article is great. But i want to know that when will be end of Kaliyuga? What will be Kaliyuga golden period.

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ravi
on June 11, 2015 at 5:59 am

But, at the end of an era, the entire world must have been under deluge not just Dwaraka alone.

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viv
on June 11, 2015 at 5:59 am

I am interested in getting more details……

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A.H.Srinivas
on June 11, 2015 at 5:59 am

Inspite of so many clarifications, controversial statements will ever be going on.

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Ragini
on June 11, 2015 at 6:00 am

Thank you for sharing this precious article, 426.900 years still to go!, it is so bad already, dont want to imagine these coming years going to be like. Om Namah shivay

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Cahyo Narayana
on June 11, 2015 at 6:00 am

Hi, I’m Cahyo from Java, Indonesia. I’m interested in India cultures and Hinduism. Can you tell me what did Indian people eat before Kali Yuga age? What kind of food? Thank u for the answer.

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Thirumalai
on June 11, 2015 at 6:00 am

Very good message. Let us know the kaliyuga ends..

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Shaun
on June 11, 2015 at 6:01 am

Hare Krsna Cahyo. People were mostly vegetarian before Kali-Yuga.

Meat eating was almost unheard of back then, and only the outcastes ate meat and flesh.

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karthik
on June 11, 2015 at 6:01 am

Very good article. The best thing to escape permanently from this kaliyuga is not to be born again. One need to surrender to Krishna and try for moksha.
Jai Shri Ram!

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Cahyo Narayana
on June 11, 2015 at 6:02 am

Thank you for the answer Shaun… So they were vegetarian.. Can you please give me more detail what kind of vegetable were that? Or web link that describe it much? we’re in Indonesia watch few Indian TV series about Mahabharata and Krishna, and we’re wondering what kind of food they ate? Some kind like “Laddu” or something.. Sorry for bothering questions, we really like to know… Hehe.. 🙂

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Sanjeev Sharma
on June 24, 2015 at 4:20 am

Have been studying bhagwat puran, that has given me so much confidence that even in kalyug i can imagine myself living in satyuga.. hare krsna hare rama…

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heeru
on July 1, 2015 at 9:44 pm

Its great knowledge about Kalyug

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arun
on July 23, 2015 at 6:00 pm

It is said people will forget names of gods I.e either followers of sanathana dharma will be converted or killed. So people will forget names of gods. Vedas will not be read. As migration from one religion to another. Worship place becomes haunted places. There is a crucial period less than 400 years, it is war again between good versus evil. Narayana who is in deep sleep now and so, will be waken up by lakshmi who tells look at what is happening on earth. Due to immense war’s earth doesn’t have basic raw materials such as iron and steel to produce war machines. Technology will be reduced to rubble. A boy baby will be born on fine planetary position and it will be bright day. Ancestors will be Kshatriyas but born into christu dharma. Comes with silver sword. Few men and women will survive then they will perish. 1000 years of rain and snowfall will be on earth. Narayana goes into deep sleep. Nobody will come for our rescue. The future is religious war’s. Less rains and less food’s. Thieves rule. Whatever grows tall has to break down. Everything has an end. Look out for mass migration on planet. Nobody can go against shristikartha.

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arun
on July 30, 2015 at 5:59 pm

Kaliyuga. Do not confuse with goddess kaali. Age of kali or age of vice. Kali means demon. Kali passes leadership from one to other. Kali leader will be rule from hottest place. Abundant wealth, where women is the sufferer or bowed to him. Whatever he says his disciples, subjects & country men should obey him and believe him. But they do believe him blindly. His words will law. His men commit atrocities like women slaves, atrocities on women even girls who have just attained puberty. Those who oppose him will be killed without enquiry or trial. East world will suffer initially, finally whole earth suffers. They will drives rains away. Kali has been born more than 35 years ago as per my knowledge. People will bow to kali. Only Kalki has to be born to finish devil. When the conch will be blown for the last and final time in and around Himalayas after few decades Kalki will be born. Stone animal becomes real animal in Dakshin Bharath. Think of Mahavishnu and pray to Maheshwara to send Avathara Purusha to earth soon.